5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
500ml bottle bought as part of a delivery from the brewery and drunk at home. Dark gold and hazy with almost no head. Light malty aroma. Sweet taste with some bitterness near the finish. Very flat and watery body. Doesn't taste like a Vienna, and doesn't really taste like much else either. Not a great beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2023
at 20:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, Sep 23. Pours dark, large tan head. Dark malt and chocolate aroma. Continues to taste, decent porter overall with soft roast alongside pleasant malty dark choc shades.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2023
at 11:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, Aug 23. Cheers Mark for bringing this back from your hols in Dorset. Pours a dull hazed gold, frothy white head. Herbal ginger aroma. Nice herbal ginger permeating a hoppy bitter IPA character. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2023
at 16:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Exeter Beer Festival. Cask. Pours light hazed pale gold with a white cap. Pale malts, citrus, grass. Light to medium body with soft carbonation
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jan 2023
at 16:49
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle ordered from the brewery. Aroma combines malty chocolate with light charcoal. Dark - cola brown when held up to the light. Foamy off-white head soon develops some bald spots. Initial fruit and berries followed by a sour edge as the berries take prominence, and then moves into charcoal and dark chocolate bitterness. A sweet vinous element and creamy hints are in there dodging about. Seems more punchy than 5.2%. Heavy bodied. Develops molasses as it warms up. Creamy. Flat-average carbonation. Long dry astringent finish. Decent stiff... there's some creaminess and sweetness but it doesn't pill its punches.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2023
at 20:03
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle ordered from the brewery. Aroma is floral with a resinous edge. Opaque amber. Thin frothy white head. Heavy bitter. Resin, quinine and tart citrus. Peripheral fruity sweetness. Medium bodied. Slick-oily. Soft carbonation. Long dry astringent finish. A bitter IPA that's rough around the edges.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2023
at 19:20
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at The Magnet, Stockport. Sampled June 2017. Pours opaque pale orange to yellow, with a beige cap. Aroma: citrus, lime, some apricot. Taste: light sweet & light to moderate bitter, citrus, lime, lemon, slightly astringent. Light to medium body with soft carbonation. Decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Jan 2023
at 22:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Ring of Bells, Taunton. Sampled December 2016. Pours unclear gold with a beige cap. Aroma: spicy yeasty, some pepper. Taste: light sweet, more spicy yeast vibes, citrus, earthy, grassy hops. Light to medium body with soft carbonation. Not a style I associate with cask dispense but overall pretty decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Jan 2023
at 22:19
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle ordered from the brewery. Aroma has citrus and a big dose of herbs plus... something random like gravy. Opaque gold. Thick fluffy foamy white head. Lively. The flava mirrors the aroma - there's citrus but it's the bitter herbs that are to the fore. Actually gets quite quinine. Underlying hints of malt. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft carbonation. Long dry very astringent finish. In yer face Wheat Ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2023
at 18:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle ordered from the brewery. Aroma is citrusy and vinous. Clear amber gold. Slightly opaque. Thin translucent white head. Medium bitter with a sour citrus and vinous. Underlying malts. The bitterness really takes on a quinine edge. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Average-fizzy carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish. A bit of a rough take on the style for me. No sherbert and old school UK malts. Inoffensive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2023
at 19:17